Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland voters had chosen between city management and a return to the old mayor-and-ward-politics system. Manager Hopkins and friends were receiving election returns. Manager Hopkins was winning. A little moved by his success, he strolled to an open window, gazed long at a bright moon. The tight lines of his face relaxed. Coughing for attention, he spoke in blank verse...
...Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation. Ceske Slovo announced that the entire story "must be considered as withdrawn." In all the "Little Entente" countries censorship was clamped on tight. None of the three Governments made an announcement or explanation. What could not be hushed up in the U. S. can and frequently is hushed in Central Europe. From Prague the only U. S. daily correspondent (New York Times) who handled the story was able to cable only...
...Equity. The evening after President Gillmore's meeting at which Equity members in Hollywood adopted a resolution requiring cinema producers to employ casts at least 80% Equity (TIME, Aug. 19), Miss Barrymore denounced Mr. Gillmore's tactics as "futile" and left town. Tickled, the producers sat tight. Vexed, President Gillmore called off the strike, left for New York, flayed Actress Barrymore more for speaking out of turn "during the heat of the conflict." He called it a "personal grudge," promised to renew next month his fight to unionize the cinema industry...
...scandalous cause have always been dropped into a well of silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...
...Manhattan realtors tried to unfreeze their assets. They announced the formation of the New York Real Estate Securities Exchange. Such an exchange has been talked of for years, but though often discussed was always postponed.* This year, however, the real estate business has not been good. Money has been tight, credit high, realtors embarrassed. So the exchange idea was revived and on Oct. 1, at No. 12 East 41st St., the first real estate exchange in the world will open under the presidency of Cyrus C. Miller, Manhattan lawyer and member of the New York Real Estate Board...